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Originally Posted by Samuel Coleridge
That seems rather mean when taken into context. Jesus doesn't even want the people he is preaching to understand his meaning.
That's not the portrait of the loving Christ I have always had in my mind.
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And there's your problem.
You're hung up on what's in your mind instead of what's in the Bible. If you hadn't been corrupted by your wishy washy interpretationist thinking you'd know that your God is a jealous God. You'd know that your God didn't muck about sending Jesus to die for you just so you could shilly shally about allegory this and non-literall that to wriggle out of doing His will.
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Mark 6:11, 12 11And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
12And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
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Jesus said it how it was. God doesn't mess around and all your wishy washy stuff can't hide that. No parable, just straight talking.